Frank Loesser
The Sermon
[LAPP, spoken]
Reverend Birdsong
To avoid further confusion among the flock
We should preach on the same, precise, exact subject
Every Sunday

[BIRDSONG, spoken]
By all means, my dear Reverend Lapp
Nothing shakes faith like two points of view

[LAPP, spoken]
I had in mind for next Sunday
A sermon on the coming of winter

[BIRDSONG, spoken]
Ah, the coming of winter
Now that's perfectly agreeable

[LAPP, spoken]
Let's see

[BIRDSONG, spoken]
Let's see

[LAPP & BIRDSONG]
The coming of winter
The coming of winter (The coming of)
The coming of wretched cold (Winter)
(Blessed old) Cold winter (Winter)
Nights of long, deep featherbed sleep
Is a warning
And a hot plum porridge in the morning
A warning to repent (Rejoice)
Repent (Rejoice), repent
Repent (Rejoice), repent, repent (Rejoice)
Give heed, lest wild storms kill your trees
Kill your trees (The merry white)
For your sins God will punish you (Snowdrifts)
(Nippy breeze) Trees will die (Calling)
"Dance, dance, dance, there's wind in the sky"
Branches fall
So there's good, good firewood for all
Let sinners all beware (Be glad)
Beware (Be glad), beware
Beware (Be glad), beware, beware (Be glad)

[LAPP, BIRDSONG, BOTH]
Of course, you know (You should know)
From Genesis One: Thirty-one (Six: Five)
God saw everything that He had made
That the wickedness of man was great
And behold, it was very good
Wickedness (Behold, it was)
Wickedness (Very good)
And so repent (Rejoice)
Repent (Rejoice), repent
Repent (Rejoice), repent
Ay-men (Ah-men)

[LAPP, spoken]
I prefer "Ay-men"
[BIRDSONG, spoken]
Oh, "Ay-men"

[LAPP, spoken]
Long as we're of one mind about things

[BIRDSONG, spoken]
So be it

[LAPP & BIRDSONG]
Ay-men